Year 11 ICT


You are to keep a diary of your progress during/after each lesson .
Date each new entry- Record new skills, problems you expereinced and how you solved them or tried to solve them. Record your solutions. This is not a diary of your feelings but more a record of what you do and learn "A record of progress!"


SAC - I have uploaded the sac. This is to be completd by Friday August 22nd -
Year 11 Any written work is to be handed to me on Thursday 21st. Materila for your wiki must be uploaded by the Friday and I must receive notification of this via the wiki.
Year 10 You must be working on completing your research on careers at home and work on the programming aspect in class from Aug19th

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Computer Programming


Game Maker – Free Software that allows you to programme your own Computer Games


We are using Game maker 6.1
Open up Game Maker and got to File Open Examples and try some of the games in this folder.
    • Read the Game Instructions to Learn how to play the games
    • Hit the green to run the game
    • Which are the more difficult games
    • Have a look in The Game Area and see how the games are constructed
I’ve recommended the following site to the Ed Channel hopefully its available by the time you read this http://www.gamelearning.net/ to the resources page and you will find games there constructed in Game Maker



Go to student public S:\Student Games. Play some of the games here that have been created by students using Game Maker

Use these instructions to create your 1st game

Log on to the following web site using your free account (remember with an f on the end of your normal login). Its on the ed Channel and will not use any of your internet credit http://www.mindtools.tased.edu.au/gamemaker/default.htm

  • This site
      • Introduces you to Game Maker
      • Allows you to download Game Maker free of charge to your home computer (School is using version 6.1)
      • Takes you to lots of useful sites to help you learn about Game Maker

Go the sidebar menu and select Introduction http://www.mindtools.tased.edu.au/gamemaker/intro.htm
    • Read through this page
    • Complete the activity at the bottom by selecting the link
“do this activity”
Next try some of the beginner Tutorials

Then try some of the more difficult tutorials.

Some useful resources

http://www.yoyogames.com/wiki/show/Home
http://www.yoyogames.com/make/tutorials